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Post by NellyDee on Sept 28, 2015 8:49:18 GMT
We had to remove approx. 4ft height of ground over a large area and level it out. Then due to the weather it was just left. This lovely plant (Well I Like it) appeared in May and has just started to flower. I don't know if it is a garden plant or wild, any ideas please. point of interest for me, considering what is now appearing, is that it must have been deep under the ground for ages or is it the sort of plant where the seeds have been blown in on the wind or carried by birds. The other possibility is from the wild seed I scattered at the top of the slope where this plant has appeared.
 20150927_6 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr |
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Post by John Pappus on Sept 28, 2015 14:00:29 GMT
I don't have a clue to it's ID, but what a beautiful plant it is - I'd collect some seed if possible!
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Post by aeshna5 on Sept 28, 2015 17:58:17 GMT
Looks like Persicaria campanulata to me, which hails from the Himalayas, though popular in a variety of cultivars in gardens. Those seeds must have blown some way!  |
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Post by John Pappus on Sept 29, 2015 5:05:28 GMT
Looks like Persicaria campanulata to me, which hails from the Himalayas, though popular in a variety of cultivars in gardens. Those seeds must have blown some way! aeshna5 you are a mine of information - I've just looked-up P.campanulata and you look to be 100% spot-on!  That's a very good show indeed old chap! It's certainly a beautiful plant too. |
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Post by aeshna5 on Sept 29, 2015 5:24:00 GMT
Thanks John. Agree it is a beauty!
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Post by NellyDee on Sept 29, 2015 10:27:34 GMT
Thanks John. Looked it up, so pleased:) It seems to like the conditions where it is, it has developed into a lovely display. I have also looked up how to tend it. So it is lesser knapweed, as it has a common name does this mean it has become a wild flower?
Just as an aside the other plants that have appeared are lots of yarrow, St.John's wort and much to my surprise sea campion - we are 40 miles from the sea, hawksbit and some welsh poppies. male ferns - not unusual here as they abound here - weed proportions as do the foxgloves.
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Post by aeshna5 on Sept 29, 2015 19:56:29 GMT
Where do you get the name Lesser Knapweed? Knapweeds are Centaurea + totally unrelated to Persicarias!
If successful it may become a naturalised wild flower but never a native.
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Post by NellyDee on Sept 30, 2015 7:51:39 GMT
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Post by faith on Sept 30, 2015 8:04:28 GMT
Stace calls it lesser knotweed which makes more sense. Are you sure it was 'knapweed'? But when did being totally unrelated make any difference to vernacular names anyway e.g. evening primrose, grass of parnassus . . . I seem to remember saying all this before!
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Post by NellyDee on Sept 30, 2015 15:59:40 GMT
LOL! I should have gone to spec savers. No idea why I read it as knapweed. You have permission to slap me on the wrist:)
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Post by aeshna5 on Sept 30, 2015 19:47:44 GMT
That makes more sense!
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Post by John Pappus on Sept 30, 2015 20:38:54 GMT
Stace calls it lesser knotweed which makes more sense. Are you sure it was 'knapweed'? But when did being totally unrelated make any difference to vernacular names anyway e.g. evening primrose, grass of parnassus . . . I seem to remember saying all this before! Well, I hate to say but I think the RHS website also refers to it as Lesser knotweed, I think.... If Stace says it is so..............it is simply so!  L_knotweed by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr |
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Post by NellyDee on Oct 1, 2015 10:06:51 GMT
Now I think I am going nuts! Maybe I am losing the knack to read - you are right John it does say Knotweed. Both times I have looked at the site I have read it differently.
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Post by faith on Oct 1, 2015 12:24:36 GMT
If it's any consolation, when I wrote my reply, I actually wrote 'Stace calls it lesser knapweed', posted that, then a few seconds later realised what I had done and edited it to read 'knotweed'!
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Post by John Pappus on Oct 2, 2015 3:26:56 GMT
We're all going barmy - at least we're in good company!
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That's a very good show indeed old chap! 
